ISLAMABAD,
August 18 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Pakistan condemned
Monday, August 18, what it dubbed as earnest efforts made by India to
forge an anti-Muslim alliance by inviting the United States and Israel
to a "triangle" against terrorism.
"This
is an alliance against Muslims as a whole," Pakistan's Foreign
Office spokesman Masood Khan said.
Speaking
in Washington last week, the Indian national security advisor, Barjesh
Mishra, had proposed that the U.S., Israel and India should set up an
alliance to fight what he said was growing international militancy.
Khan
said in his reaction to the Indian move that India was trying to
mislead the international community by using such elusive terminology,
noting that the yet-to-be alliance was directed primarily at the
Muslim world.
"What
India is proposing is a trio against Muslims," Khan said, adding
that the Muslims all over the world should join hands in standing up
to such an alliance.
He
also blamed India for "organizing terrorism" inside Pakistan
through "its terrorist training camps."
"India
has 55 training camps on its soil to train terrorists and send them in
to Pakistan for carrying out terrorist activities," Khan said,
claiming that India was using these camps to destabilize Pakistan.
This
is the first time that Pakistan has blamed India for holding terrorist
camps against Pakistan. India has been saying for years that Pakistan
has such camps where Kashmiri fighters are trained and sent in to the
Indian part of Kashmir to fuel insurgency.
The
two nuclear neighbors had fought three wars since independence in
1947, two of them over Muslim-majority Kashmir.
More
than 38,000 people have died in Indian-administered Kashmir since the
eruption of anti-Indian rebellion in the restive region in 1989.
Separatists put the toll between 80,000 and 100,000, according to
Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Pakistan
and India reduced their diplomatic relations and cut off rail and air
links in escalatory moves following December 2001 attack on the Indian
Parliament.
India
blamed the attack on Pakistan-backed Kashmiri fighters while Pakistan
repudiated the allegations.
